Good Day for Knitting.
Current Project: The Tilted Duster, from Interweave Knits (Fall 2007).
I've been working on this thing off and on since the 16th of January -- more off than on, lately, since work's been crazy busy. So, beginning week 3 here, and I'm about half done. (I'm also contemplating hacking the pattern a little bit since I haven't knit up the sleeves yet, and I really, truly hate seaming sleeves -- I may just pick up stitches and work my way down, see how that works out for me. Honestly, as long as I've been doing it, you'd think I might have more patience with finishing than I do.)
But once that's finished, I'm thinking about diving into another sweater -- well. I still have to make my husband's Space Invaders sweater, and that's going to involve getting his feedback on whether he wants me to do little invaders or big invaders, and there's nothing saying I can't make two sweaters at once, right?
I really, really want to make Elann.com's Pinwheel sweater. I want to make it in a kid size for a friend of mine, though that can wait a little while yet: I want to make a larger one in harvest colors for me, me, meee. (... I am a greedy knitter.)
And perhaps coincidentally, Webs recently threw a clearance sale on their stock of Di.Ve' Zenith. Which is
a very soft yarn that appeals to my inner yarn ho, no doubt because of the whole merino wool aspect. So I went and pounced merrily on the sale, picking out the autumn colors I wanted.
Naturally, there had to be a problem.
When
I finished picking colors and made the order at Webs, I didn't notice that they only had one skein
of the red (color 33086) left in stock before I placed the order... And
I needed a total of five.
I've managed to get my grubby lil' paws on three more skeins thanks to eBay: As well, Avery on Ravelry is about one of my favorite people ever right now since she had the presumably last single skein of 33086 I could find on the web, and she was willing to sell it to me. (Actually, the only reason I pinged her about it was because she'd marked it as willing to sell or trade: She wanted to de-stash a little, and I wanted the yarn. I believe/hope we both got what we wanted.)
Friended a few more people I know on Ravelry, added and adjusted pictures on my stash and my projects -- all in all, the past couple days have been productive on that site, and it makes me smile a little.
Next up: Unravelling the Askew I made a year or so ago and have never worn to recover the yarn for other things...
